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Fatherhood, Race, and the American State
The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829846
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The Problem with Primary Voters
Participation, Representation, and Consistency
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512829730
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Black Excellence
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827842
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Black Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.
Partisan Policy Networks
How Research Organizations Became Party Allies and Political Advocates
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512828016
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Zachary Albert explores how elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to forward their agendas. He argues that policy research is not objective and is heavily influenced by partisan and ideological incentives, impacting policy outcomes and undermining democratic representation.
Divided Unions
The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828610
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Divided Unions, Alexis N. Walker argues that excluding public sector workers from the foundation of U.S. labor law, the Wagner Act of 1935, created divisions within the labor movement that have had lasting consequences for the size, strength, and influence of organized labor in American politics.
Migrant Citizenship
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826920
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Migrant Citizenship examines the Farm Security Administration's Migratory Labor Camp Program and its impact on diverse farmworker families across the United States. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda reveals how these camps operated beyond their economic function, helping migrants secure their full political and social participation as citizens.
The Maternalists
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826050
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.
Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826142
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Featuring essays from thought leaders in public administration, Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century offers insights into the governance challenges facing the nation—from diminished capacity to the failure to meet expectations for reform—and recommendations for how civic institutions and leaders might respond.
Between Utopia and Realism
The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826098
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.
Out of the Horrors of War
Disability Politics in World War II America
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825510
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Drawing from extensive archival research, Out of the Horrors of War demonstrates that disabled citizens in the World War II era organized a national movement for economic security and full citizenship, reshaping the U.S. welfare state and laying the foundation for the disability rights movement.
Fatherhood, Race, and the American State
The Politics of Patriarchal Anxieties
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512829846
Pub Date: August 2026
Format: Hardcover
256 Pages
The Problem with Primary Voters
Participation, Representation, and Consistency
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512829730
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Black Excellence
Atlanta and the Making of Modern Black Liberalism
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512827842
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
312 Pages
Black Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.
Partisan Policy Networks
How Research Organizations Became Party Allies and Political Advocates
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512828016
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Zachary Albert explores how elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to forward their agendas. He argues that policy research is not objective and is heavily influenced by partisan and ideological incentives, impacting policy outcomes and undermining democratic representation.
Divided Unions
The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512828610
Pub Date: July 2025
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
In Divided Unions, Alexis N. Walker argues that excluding public sector workers from the foundation of U.S. labor law, the Wagner Act of 1935, created divisions within the labor movement that have had lasting consequences for the size, strength, and influence of organized labor in American politics.
Migrant Citizenship
Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826920
Pub Date: October 2024
Format: Paperback
376 Pages
Migrant Citizenship examines the Farm Security Administration's Migratory Labor Camp Program and its impact on diverse farmworker families across the United States. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda reveals how these camps operated beyond their economic function, helping migrants secure their full political and social participation as citizens.
The Maternalists
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826050
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.
Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826142
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Featuring essays from thought leaders in public administration, Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century offers insights into the governance challenges facing the nation—from diminished capacity to the failure to meet expectations for reform—and recommendations for how civic institutions and leaders might respond.
Between Utopia and Realism
The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826098
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The essays collected in Between Utopia and Realism reflect on and refract Judith N. Shklar's major preoccupations throughout a lifetime of thinking and demonstrate the ways in which her work illuminates contemporary debates across political theory, international relations, and law.
Out of the Horrors of War
Disability Politics in World War II America
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512825510
Pub Date: September 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Drawing from extensive archival research, Out of the Horrors of War demonstrates that disabled citizens in the World War II era organized a national movement for economic security and full citizenship, reshaping the U.S. welfare state and laying the foundation for the disability rights movement.